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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






2. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






3. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






4. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






5. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






6. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






7. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






8. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






9. The time and place of a story or play.






10. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






11. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






12. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






13. A character struggles against some outside force.






14. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






15. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






16. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






17. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






18. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






19. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






20. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






21. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






22. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






23. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






24. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






25. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






26. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






27. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






28. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






29. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






30. Broken down acts.






31. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






32. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






33. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






34. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






35. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






36. A three-line stanza.






37. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






38. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






39. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






40. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






41. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






42. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






43. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






44. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






45. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






46. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






47. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






48. A poem that tells a story.






49. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






50. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.